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Two Propositions for Total Semantics Public Deposited

https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/02870w14n
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  • The history of two-dimensional semantics emanates from historical issues surrounding Kripke’s notion of rigidity. In this paper, I recreate the debate between Kripke, Dummett and Evans to arrive at early formulations of two-dimensional semantics by Lewis, Kaplan, and Stanley. In so doing, I argue that the semantic content and the assertoric content of a sentence are not identical. In the second section, I show that current advocates for two-dimensionalism (Rabern, Stojnić, Ninan) can (i) maintain that both the assertoric and semantic content of a sentence are propositions and (ii) that the semantics determine the assertoric content. The paper ends with a forward looking approach to applications of two-dimensional semantics.
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  • 2019
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  • 2019-11-17
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